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Firestone postpones gun range hearings

Times-Call staff

Posted:
01/02/2013 06:37:58 PM MST

Updated:
01/02/2013 06:38:42 PM MST

FIRESTONE -- Firestone has postponed hearings on a proposed gun-training center until February.

The center would be operated by the Second Amendment Firearms Experience, which plans to use a nearly 900-acre ranch near Colo. Highway 66 and Weld County Road 17. Firestone's planning commission will hold a hearing to rezone the site on Feb. 5, while the town board will hear both the rezoning and an annexation request for the property on Feb. 13.

Both hearings had been scheduled for January; town planner Bruce Nickerson said SAFE had asked for a little more time to finalize its site plan.

Several neighbors have expressed concerns about the noise from the range, the possible effects on wildlife and the town pushing its boundaries into the area; SAFE has said it will work to ease neighbors' worries.

An informal neighborhood meeting between the developer and those from the area will be held at 6 p.m. Jan. 29 in the Firestone town hall, 151 Grant Ave. No elected officials will be present.

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